Early fleet question

[justmatt]

OK. I have the revised Call to Arms rulebook, ASFOS, The Earth/Minbari War supplement and the Dilgar supplement.

A friend and I played teeny scenario with the EA going against the Dilgar (5 Patrol priority points apiece). But I ran into a snag. Are there ANY fighters I can use for the EA circa 2230?

I ended up fielding a Hyperion Cruiser (missile variant) and Artemis Heavy Frigate (stock vanilla version) and a flight of starfuries against two Ochlavita DDs and some Thoruns.

The Hyperion was OK at range, but really got its A-- handed to it once the Dilgar were able to close. I'm sorry, but I love the images that come with the critical hits (the Dilgar lost bridge personnel, the Hyperion had fires raging on its decks, etc)...

The only help I had once the close in fighting started came from my fighters, as good roles, even with the Dilgar support rule, let me win my dogfights bloodlessly. I tried to manuever the Hyperion as best as I could (firing the F arc missiles at range, advancing as slowly as I could & then "coming about" to present my starboard arc). But those Dilgar destroyers seem nasty at slashing runs.

BTW, pretty new to this game, so if my fleet selection seems weak, that's a big reason.

 

[Tank]

You can use Starfuries and Mongoose are releasing Tigers as well soon.

As to your fleet selection, I love the Artemis anyways but in your case Id probably have gone for the Olympus, more dice and possibly a Sagittarius instead of the Hyperion............. if you had Armageddon, D'OH!

Cant say Im overly keen on the Hyperion Variants as EA normally have a much better dedicated ship for the role

 

[TGT]

Tank
What was your fleet list for the recent tourney?
I saw three olympus' but were they the raid varient?
Whats the benefits do you think of the combo?
cheers
TGT

 

[Ripple]

Fleet selection...

Against the Dilgar I would want the extra fighters off the Rail Hyperion over the Artemis. You do lose a couple of forward rail dice but pick up fighters, more damage/crew points and pulse dice. Your slower but he will come to you, so no worries there. Frankly the smaller turning radius will be and issue.

Would really aviod the hull four as you cannot give the Dilgar extra hits/chances for crits as the triple damage crits will destroy you in a shot or two at that level.


ripple

 

[Tank]

My fleet for the tourney consisted of:

1 x Hyperion
1 x Nova
2 x Sagittarius
2 x Olympus corvette
1 x Olympus Gunship

First time i've used the Gunship altho Reaver swears by em and it was an absolute game winner for me.

 

[Ripple]

The Gunship has been a roman candle for me. I rarely have gotten a second shot. Ship fills the same role as the Solarhawk from my Drazi, it lets me be very sure who my enemy will be targeting first.

Ripple

 

[Tank]

My Gunship only got beasted in one game, I dont think my opponents realised quite how pokey it is.

The regular Olympus is also a good all round choice for early era